Rik van Riel's home page - kernelnewbieshttp://surriel.com/taxonomy/term/20/0
enUnexpected downtimehttp://surriel.com/node/71
<p>The hard disk in the firewall gave up the ghost while I am in Brazil. Aristeu Rozanski put in a heroic effort to rebuild the basics of my firewall system (thank you!) and I am now rebuilding the rest of the configuration over the internet, from Brazil. The most important services are back online: kernelnewbies and PSBL.</p>
http://surriel.com/node/71#commentskernelnewbiessystemSun, 29 Nov 2009 20:33:21 +0000riel71 at http://surriel.comNew computer & KVM migrationhttp://surriel.com/node/66
<p>Today I spent some time - more than I had hoped for - migrating the web server virtual machine from the old computer (with RHEL and Xen) to the new computer (with Fedora and KVM). I ran into a number of issues, some of them due to virt-v2v simply not being ready yet and requiring some stuff not in Fedora 11, some due to RHEL 5 not liking its disk names changing under it and some due to KVM in Fedora 11 not having all of the latest upstream bugfixes yet. Things seem to be working fine now, though, and a lot faster than they were before.</p>
http://surriel.com/node/66#commentskernelnewbiespsblsystemSun, 06 Sep 2009 02:27:00 +0000riel66 at http://surriel.comDowntime notificationhttp://surriel.com/node/41
<p>This Friday, June 26th, we will be moving to our new house. This also means that <a href="http://kernelnewbies.org/">kernel newbies</a>, the <a href="http://psbl.surriel.com/">passive spam block list</a> and the other sites will be offline for most of the day.</p>
http://surriel.com/node/41#commentskernelnewbiessystemThu, 25 Jun 2009 00:38:22 +0000riel41 at http://surriel.comDisks...http://surriel.com/node/29
<p>I noticed that my system has gotten slower over the past few weeks, but did not realize it was due to the old 250GB hard disk that did not even have data on it. Today I threw out the old 250GB disk, put a new 1TB disk into the system and moved some logical volumes onto the new disk to balance out the load. Load averages have gone from over 5 to well under 1. My programs run at a bearable speed again, and web sites like the <a>kernel newbies</a> <a href="http://br.kernelnewbies.org/">sites</a> and <a href="http://linux-mm.org/">linux-mm</a>.</p>
http://surriel.com/node/29#commentshardwarekernelnewbiesMon, 30 Mar 2009 02:30:58 +0000riel29 at http://surriel.comKernel newbies em portuguêshttp://surriel.com/node/25
<p>O site velho do <a href="http://br.kernelnewbies.org/">Linux kernel newbies em português</a> estava fora do ar faz tempo. Hoje o Eduardo e eu colocamos um novo site no ar, com forums, um aggregator, uma nova lista de email. O canal de IRC #kernel-br no OFTC continua no ar. A unica coisa que falta são alguns participantes da comunidade. Talvez alguem podia traduzir algumas dos <a href="http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ">FAQs do kernelnewbies.org</a>?</p>
http://surriel.com/node/25#commentskernelnewbieslinuxWed, 14 Jan 2009 22:05:50 +0000riel25 at http://surriel.com